ABBYY Enhances Its Mobile OCR SDK With Bar Code Recognition Technology
ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services, recently announced a new release of its ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine, a software development kit (SDK) for creating optical character recognition (OCR) applications with a small memory footprint.
In addition to its powerful text recognition capabilities, the SDK now offers a compact code bar code recognition technology that can "read" a broad range of popular 1D and 2D bar code types. Integrated into mobile devices, this technology allows users to extract bar codes from various documents, books, delivery notes, labels, warehouse schedules, etc. by photographing and processing them while on the go. This latest version of ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine accurately detects hyphenation in the captured text for even more accurate results.
With this update to ABBYY's Mobile OCR Engine, performance of the company's Business Card Reading (BCR) technology is also enhanced to increase language processing speed by up to 68 percent*. Language support is also extended to the Polish and Estonian languages.
About ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine
ABBYY's award winning Mobile OCR Engine is a powerful compact code SDK which allows developers of mobile and small footprint applications to integrate highly accurate OCR technologies that convert images and photographs into manageable and searchable text. Mobile applications based on ABBYY OCR allow users to quickly transform photographs of documents, notes, business cards, timetables and other text taken with a built-in camera into data that can be easily stored, shared or exported to other applications. Providing the broadest language support industry wide and covering a variety of operating systems such as Symbian, iPhone, Mac OS, Android, Linux, Mobile Linux (Moblin), Windows, and Windows Mobile this SDK is the ideal technology platform for developers building applications for the global marketplace.
For more information, visit http://www.abbyy.com/mobileOCR.
*According to internal ABBYY testing.
About ABBYY UK Ltd.
ABBYY UK is a member of the ABBYY Group and supports sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organisations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, the UK, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.
SOURCE: ABBYY